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1Petal’s application in Docket No. CP07–81–000 

was filed with the Commission under Section 7 of 

the Natural Gas Act. 

2The appendices referenced in this notice are not 

being printed in the Federal Register. Copies of all 

appendices, other than Appendix 1 (map), are 

available on the Commission’s Web site at the 

‘‘eLibrary’’ link or from the Commission’s Public 

Reference Room, 888 First Street, NE., Washington, 

DC 20426, or call (202) 502–8371. For instructions 

on connecting to eLibrary refer to the last page of 

this notice. Copies of the appendices were sent to 

all those receiving this notice in the mail. 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

888 First St., NE., Washington, DC 

20426. 

The filings in the above proceedings 

are accessible in the Commission’s 

eLibrary system by clicking on the 

appropriate link in the above list. They 

are also available for review in the 

Commission’s Public Reference Room in 

Washington, DC. There is an 

eSubscription link on the Web site that 

enables subscribers to receive e-mail 

notification when a document is added 

to a subscribed docket(s). For assistance 

with any FERC Online service, please email FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov. or 

call (866) 208–3676 (toll free). For TTY, 

call (202) 502–8659. 

Philis J. Posey, 

Acting Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E7–6584 Filed 4–6–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. CP07–81–000] 

Petal Gas Storage, L.L.C.; Notice of 

Intent To Prepare an Environmental 

Assessment for the Proposed Petal 

No. 3 Compressor Station Project and 

Request for Comments on 

Environmental Issues 

April 3, 2007. 

The staff of the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission (FERC or 

Commission) will prepare an 

environmental assessment (EA) that will 

discuss the environmental impacts of 

the Petal No. 3 Compressor Station 

Project, involving construction and 

operation of facilities by Petal Gas 

Storage, L.L.C. (Petal) in Forrest County, 

Mississippi. The EA will be used by the 

Commission in its decision-making 

process to determine whether or not to 

authorize the project. 

This notice announces the opening of 

the scoping period that will be used to 

gather environmental input from the 

public and interested agencies on the 

project. Your input will help the 

Commission staff determine which 

issues need to be evaluated in the EA. 

Please note that the scoping period will 

close on May 3, 2007. 

An effort is being made to send this 

notice to all individuals, organizations, 

Native American Tribes, and 

government entities interested in and/or 

potentially affected by the proposed 

project. This includes all landowners 

who are potential right-of-way grantors, 

whose property may be used 

temporarily for project purposes, or who 

own homes within distances defined in 

the Commission’s regulations of certain 

aboveground facilities. We encourage 

government representatives to notify 

their constituents of this planned 

project and encourage them to comment 

on their areas of concern. 

A fact sheet prepared by the FERC 

entitled ‘‘An Interstate Natural Gas 

Facility on My Land? What Do I Need 

to Know?’’ was attached to the project 

notice provided to landowners. This fact 

sheet addresses a number of typically 

asked questions, including the use of 

eminent domain and how to participate 

in the Commission’s proceedings. It is 

available for viewing on the FERC 

Internet Web site (http://www.ferc.gov). 

Summary of the Proposed Project 

Petal proposes to construct a new 

compressor station consisting of three 

5,000-horsepower, electric-drive 

compressor units at its existing Petal 

Storage Facility in Forrest County, 

Mississippi. Petal would construct a 

new 60-foot by 200-foot building to 

house the proposed units and other 

appurtenant facilities. In addition, a 

1,605-foot-long, 20-inch-diameter 

pipeline would be constructed in order 

to connect the proposed compressor 

station to Petal’s existing gas storage 

operations.1

Petal currently has an estimated 

working storage capacity of 18 billion 

cubic feet of natural gas in four storage 

caverns. The Petal Storage Facility is 

capable of delivering natural gas into 

five interstate pipeline systems. The 

proposed addition of the Petal No. 3 

Compressor Station would allow Petal 

to utilize the full storage capacity of the 

Petal Storage Facility. 

The general location of Petal’s 

proposed facilities is shown on the map 

attached as appendix 1.2

Land Requirements for Construction 

Construction of the proposed Petal 

No. 3 Compressor Station Project would 

affect a total of about 21.1 acres of land. 

Following construction, about 12.1 acres 

of land would be allowed to revert to its 

previous conditions. Disturbance 

associated with aboveground facilities 

would comprise about 6.7 acres of 

permanently affected land. A new 

1,485-foot-long access road would be 

constructed surrounding the compressor 

station building, permanently disturbing 

0.5 acre of land. 

A 75-foot-wide construction right-ofway is proposed for the associated 

pipeline. Petal would maintain a 50- 

foot-wide permanent right-of-way for 

operation and maintenance of the 

proposed facilities. Permanent 

disturbance of the pipeline would total 

about 1.8 acres. All land that would be 

affected by the proposed compressor 

station, pipeline, and access road is 

owned by Petal. 

The EA Process 

We are preparing the EA to comply 

with the National Environmental Policy 

Act (NEPA) which requires the 

Commission to take into account the 

environmental impacts that could result 

from an action whenever it considers 

the issuance of a Certificate of Public 

Convenience and Necessity. NEPA also 

requires us to discover and address 

concerns the public may have about 

proposals. This process is referred to as 

‘‘scoping.’’ The main goal of the scoping 

process is to focus the analysis in the 

EA on the important environmental 

issues. By this Notice of Intent, the 

Commission staff requests public 

comments on the scope of the issues to 

address in the EA. All comments 

received are considered during the 

preparation of the EA. 

Our independent analysis of the 

issues will be in the EA. Depending on 

the comments received during the 

scoping process, the EA may be 

published and mailed to Federal, State, 

and local agencies, public interest 

groups, interested individuals, affected 

landowners, newspapers and libraries in 

the project area, and the Commission’s 

official service list for this proceeding. 

A comment period will be allotted for 

review if the EA is published. We will 

consider all comments on the EA before 

we make our recommendations to the 

Commission. 

Public Participation 

You can make a difference by 

providing us with your specific 

comments or concerns about the project. 

By becoming a commenter, your 

concerns will be addressed in the EA 

and considered by the Commission. 

Your comments should focus on the 

potential environmental effects of the 

proposal, reasonable alternatives to the 

proposal (including alternative locations 

and routes), and measures to avoid or 

lessen environmental impact. The more 

specific your comments, the more useful 


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they will be. Please carefully follow 

these instructions to ensure that your 

comments are received in time and 

properly recorded: 

• Send an original and two copies of 

your letter to: Philis J. Posey, Acting 

Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, 888 First St., NE., Room 

1A, Washington, DC 20426. 

• Label one copy of the comments for 

the attention of Gas Branch 1; 

• Reference Docket No. CP07–81–

000; 

• Mail your comments so that they 

will be received in Washington, DC on 

or before May 3, 2007. 

Please note that the Commission 

encourages electronic filing of 

comments. See 18 Code of Federal 

Regulations (CFR) 385.2001(a)(1)(iii) 

and the instructions on the 

Commission’s Internet Web site at 

http://www.ferc.gov under the ‘‘eFiling’’

link and the link to the User’s Guide. 

Prepare your submission in the same 

manner as you would if filing on paper 

and save it to a file on your hard drive. 

Before you can file comments you will 

need to create an account by clicking on 

‘‘Login to File’’ and then ‘‘New User 

Account.’’ You will be asked to select 

the type of filing you are making. This 

filing is considered a ‘‘Comment on 

Filing.’’

Becoming an Intervenor 

In addition to involvement in the EA 

scoping process, you may want to 

become an official party to the 

proceeding known as an ‘‘intervenor’’. 

Intervenors play a more formal role in 

the process. Among other things, 

intervenors have the right to receive 

copies of case-related Commission 

documents and filings by other 

intervenors. Likewise, each intervenor 

must send one electronic copy (using 

the Commission’s e-Filing system) or 14 

paper copies of its filings to the 

Secretary of the Commission and must 

send a copy of its filings to all other 

parties on the Commission’s service list 

for this proceeding. If you want to 

become an intervenor you must file a 

motion to intervene according to Rule 

214 of the Commission’s Rules of 

Practice and Procedure (18 CFR 

385.214). Only intervenors have the 

right to seek rehearing of the 

Commission’s decision. 

Affected landowners and parties with 

environmental concerns may be granted 

intervenor status upon showing good 

cause by stating that they have a clear 

and direct interest in this proceeding 

which would not be adequately 

represented by any other parties. You do 

not need intervenor status to have your 

environmental comments considered. 

Additional Information 

Additional information about the 

project is available from the 

Commission’s Office of External Affairs 

at 1–866–208 FERC (3372) or on the 

FERC Internet Web site (http:// 

www.ferc.gov). Using the ‘‘eLibrary’’

link, select ‘‘General Search’’ from the 

eLibrary menu, enter the selected date 

range and ‘‘Docket Number’’ (i.e., CP07–

81–000), and follow the instructions. 

For assistance with access to eLibrary, 

the helpline can be reached at 1–866–

208–3676, TTY (202) 502–8659, or at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ ferc.gov. The 

eLibrary link on the FERC Internet Web 

site also provides access to the texts of 

formal documents issued by the 

Commission, such as orders, notices, 

and rule makings. 

In addition, the Commission now 

offers a free service called eSubscription 

which allows you to keep track of all 

formal issuances and submittals in 

specific dockets. This can reduce the 

amount of time you spend researching 

proceedings by automatically providing 

you with notification of these filings, 

document summaries and direct links to 

the documents. Go to http:// 

www.ferc.gov/esubscribenow.htm. 

Philis J. Posey, 

Acting Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E7–6558 Filed 4–6–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[GA–78–200703; FRL–8296–1] 

Adequacy Status of the Atlanta Early 

Progress 8-Hour Ozone Motor Vehicle 

Emission Budgets for Transportation 

Conformity Purposes 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of adequacy. 

SUMMARY: In this notice, EPA is 

notifying the public that we have found 

that the Motor Vehicle Emissions 

Budgets (MVEBs) in the Atlanta Early 

Progress State Implementation Plan 

(SIP), submitted on January 16, 2007, by 

the Georgia Environmental Protection 

Division (GA EPD) of the Georgia 

Department of Natural Resources, are 

adequate for transportation conformity 

purposes. As a result of EPA’s finding, 

the Atlanta area must use the MVEBs 

from the January 16, 2007, Atlanta Early 

Progress SIP for future conformity 

determinations for the 8-hour ozone 

standard. 

DATES: These MVEBs are effective April 

24, 2007. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Lynorae Benjamin, Environmental 

Engineer, U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency, Region 4, Air Planning Branch, 

Air Quality Modeling and 

Transportation Section, 61 Forsyth 

Street, SW., Atlanta, Georgia 30303. Ms. 

Benjamin can also be reached by 

telephone at (404) 562–9040, or via 

electronic mail at 

benjamin.lynorae@epa.gov. The finding 

is available at EPA’s conformity Web 

site: http://www.epa.gov/otaq/ 

stateresources/transconf/currsips.htm. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

Today’s notice is simply an 

announcement of a finding that EPA has 

already made. EPA Region 4 sent a letter 

to GA EPD on January 24, 2007, stating 

that the MVEBs in the Atlanta Early 

Progress SIP, submitted on January 16, 

2007, are adequate. The Atlanta 8-hour 

ozone nonattainment area is comprised 

of the following twenty counties: 

Barrow, Bartow, Carroll, Cherokee, 

Clayton, Cobb, Coweta, DeKalb, 

Douglas, Fayette, Forsyth, Fulton, 

Gwinnett, Hall, Henry, Newton, 

Paulding, Rockdale, Spalding and 

Walton. EPA’s adequacy comment 

period ran from October 30, 2006, 

through November 29, 2006. During 

EPA’s adequacy comment period no 

adverse comments were received. This 

finding has also been announced on 

EPA’s conformity Web site: http:// 

www.epa.gov/otaq/stateresources/ 

transconf/pastsips.htm. The adequate 

MVEBs are provided in the following 

table: 

ATLANTA 8-HOUR OZONE MVEBS

[Tons per day] 

2006 

VOC .............................................. 306.75 

NOX .............................................. 172.27 

Transportation conformity is required 

by section 176(c) of the Clean Air Act, 

as amended in 1990. EPA’s conformity 

rule requires that transportation plans, 

programs and projects conform to state 

air quality implementation plans and 

establishes the criteria and procedures 

for determining whether or not they do. 

Conformity to a SIP means that 

transportation activities will not 

produce new air quality violations, 

worsen existing violations, or delay 

timely attainment of the national 

ambient air quality standards. 

The criteria by which EPA determines 

whether a SIP’s MVEBs are adequate for 


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